Renaissance 360 Essential questions about student assessment and

Renaissance ® 360 Essential questions about student assessment and accelerating learning Date Houston ISD Presenter

Renaissance 360 ® Agenda CONNECT SCREEN GROW What is Renaissance 360® and how does it connect to Houston ISD goals for accelerating growth? Based on insights gleaned from education leaders, how do we best plan for our Renaissance 360® implementation and prepare teachers, students, and parents? As Renaissance 360® gains momentum in our implementation, how do we best build capacity via Renaissance U? . 2

Connect What is Renaissance 360® and how does it connect to Houston ISD goals for accelerating achievement and growth?

Purpose for Renaissance 360 ® HISD is organized to support all campuses and to meet district-approved board goals for the 2017 -2018 school year. These goals are as follows: • Goal 1: Percent of students reading and writing at or above grade level for grades 3 through English II will increase by three percentage points annually between spring 2017 and spring 2020. * • Goal 2: The percentage of graduates meeting the Global Graduate standards will increase three percentage points annually per year from 2017 baseline up to 85% by 2022. * • Goal 3: Among students who exhibit below satisfactory performance on state assessments, the percentage who demonstrate at least one year of academic growth will increase three percentage points annually in reading and math between spring 2017 and spring 2020. * • *Renaissance 360 will be used to measure progress throughout the year. 4

Where does Renaissance 360 ® fit? Common universal screener windows have been established for the 2017 -2018 school year. Beginning of the Year September 20 October 13 Middle of the Year January 8 -31 End of Year May 1 -25 5

What’s in a name? Potentially some confusion Image available https: //allpoetry. com/contest/2635658 -Whats-In-A-Name- 6

Renaissance 360 ® A comprehensive view of learning Star Custom Star Spanish Early Literacy Star Reading Star Math 7

Early literacy Designed for beginning readers those who need early skills assessed • • • K-1 in HISD 27 items Assess 41 skills within three domains – Word knowledge and skills – Comprehension strategies and constructing meaning – Early numeracy 8

Renaissance 360 ® A comprehensive view of learning Star Custom Star Spanish Early Literacy Reading Star Math 9

Reading Designed for students who are reading to learn • Grades 2 -12 in HISD – Optional for students in Grades K-1 who are probable readers • • 34 items Assess skills within five domains of reading – Word knowledge a skills – Comprehension strategies and constructing meaning – Analyzing literary text – Understanding author’s craft – Analyzing argument and evaluating text 10

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Math • • 1 st – 12 th grade in HISD • • 34 items Audio support for students in grade 1 Assess skills within four major domains of mathematics – – Numbers and operations Algebra Geometry and measurement Data analytics, statistics, and probability 12

Renaissance 360 ® A comprehensive view of learning Star Custom Early Literacy Spanish Reading Math 13

Spanish • Early Literacy Spanish • Early reading skills • Prompts in Spanish • Reading Spanish • Reading and comprehension skills • Math Spanish • Math computations and problem solving skills 14

When and how often should Renaissance Spanish assessments be administered? Within the same screening windows as Renaissance 360 Early Literacy, Reading and Math assessments FALL WINTER SPRING Star Testing Event (All Students) STAR Testing Event Students) Screening Window Star Spanish Testing Event (Some Students) STAR Spanish Testing Event (Some Students) 15

Renaissance 360 ® A comprehensive view of learning Custom Early Literacy Spanish Reading Math 16

Custom assessments Use built in pre-and post-test probes or create your own • • Built-in probes Platform for teachercreated probes

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Live the learning Renaissance 360® from the student point of view

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Take a Renaissance 360 ® assessment rppres 10. renlearn. com/zwadefall • • View actual items Experience a computeradaptive test – See Item Response Theory (IRT) in action • Try out functionality and features 21

Student Username= Grade+handout # rppres 10. renlearn. com/zwadefall • • • Kindergarten students - Kinder 1 st grade students - First 2 nd grade students - Second 3 rd grade students - Third 4 th grade students - Fourth 5 th grade students - Fifth • • 6 th grade students - Sixth 7 th grade students - Seventh 8 th grade students - Eighth 9 th grade students - Ninth 10 th grade students - Tenth 11 th grade students – Eleventh 12 th grade students - Twelfth 22

See handout for your number rppres 10. renlearn. com/zwadefall Username = grade + handout number 17 For example: • • • Kinder 17 First 2 Ninth 190 23

View sample test items • • • Early Literacy- Download sample items Reading- Download sample items Math- Download sample items 24

Take a Renaissance 360 ® assessment rppres 10. renlearn. com/zwadefall 25

Enter name and password 4 EM rppres 10. renlearn. com/zwadefall First 151 4 EM 26

Select an assessment rppres 10. renlearn. com/zwadefall • • Click assessment Enter admin and click Start 27

Item Time Limits 28

Standards, learning progressions, and. . . Renaissance 360® 29

Standards Do represent a progression • Standards represent a progression of end-of-grade level expectations. • Signposts along the way 30 ©Copyright 2017 Renaissance Learning Inc. All rights reserved. 30

Progressions Heritage, M. (2017) Learning progressions show the steps between standards; the focus of day -to-day learning. 31

Renaissance Core Progress Math® A representation of how learning evolves in math 32

How computer-adaptive testing works The “backbone” is central to the adaptation More Difficult Easier Items answered by a student Correct Response Incorrect Response Standard Error of Measurement 33

Renaissance Core Progress Math ® • The backbone for Renaissance 360® 34 ©Copyright 2016

Renaissance Core Progress Reading ® A representation of how learning evolves in reading 576 35

1400 Skills not yet ready to learn 576 Skills Ready to Learn 0 Skills under control From representation To practice 36

Renaissance 360 ® assessment experience Five minutes of metacognition Work in A/B pairs – 60 seconds—what were your “first impressions” of the assessment? – 45 seconds---how do you anticipate ways that faculty and students will respond to Renaissance 360® and how can you impact that response? – 30 seconds--when did you notice the adaptation and what did you notice? – 15 seconds—what is the first thing you would say to an educator, student, or parent about Renaissance 360® 37

Check your Renaissance 360® score rppres 10. renlearn. com/zwadefall • Username = same as student without the number • • Password = 7 FR (week of 9/18) • Select North Charter School Click your Renaissance assessment and click Reports 38

Check your Renaissance 360 ® score rppres 10. renlearn. com/zwadefall • • • Select Summary • Click View Report Go to All Classes Scroll down to, and click, your Training grade level class 39

Check your Renaissance 360 ® score Draw inferences and build insight 40

Mastery Standards and skills 41

Renaissance 360 ® Spanish Results Side-by-side • • Scaled scores Domain scores – Reported for each student’s grade level – Mastery data at the standard level 42

State proficiency In the context of growth • Longitudinal data – Year over year • Progress toward proficiency – Linked to Texas STAAR • Growth – Student Growth Percentile – Relative to academic peers – Compared to cohorts 43

Connect Renaissance 360 ® scores Link to other measures

Fall screening Plan for Renaissance 360® fall screening

Data to make decisions Plan Administer Star Assessments appropriately so you can rely on the data to make instructional decisions. Prepare for assessment students to test Motivate Monitor students to do their best students during testing 46

Software Tasks Preparing to test • • • Pretest instructions User names and passwords Testing preferences 47

Building capacity with Renaissance-U and other resources

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Renaissance 360 syllabus Brief tutorials and activities 54

Renaissance 360 ® What is the first thing you will say to your students about Renaissance 360? CONNECT SCREEN BUILD What is Renaissance 360® and how does it connect to Houston ISD goals for accelerating growth? Based on insights gleaned from education leaders, how do we best plan for our Renaissance 360® implementation and prepare teachers, students, and parents? As Renaissance 360® gains momentum in our implementation, how do we best build capacity via Renaissance U? . 55

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